Battle of Malplaquet
September 11, 1709
Marlborough and Eugene won the bloodiest battle of the century, losing twenty-one thousand men to drive a French force from the field. It is a victory, wrote the French marshal, that will ruin us no more than this one. England, sickened by the butcher's bill, began to long for peace.
In context
Also in 1709 (3 other events on record)
- Abraham Darby Smelts Iron with Coke · Europe · Science
- Battle of Poltava · Europe · War
- The Great Frost of 1709 · Europe · Exploration
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in War
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.